![]() ![]() But one cannot understand the Free Speech Movement without recognizing the important role that women played in this student revolt. ![]() As Savio’s biographer, I would be the last person to argue against quoting his powerful speeches. Most US history textbooks have this same male character, quoting only Savio in their brief accounts of the FSM. For Menand, Berkeley’s free speech struggle of fall 1964 was a battle between men, primarily between UC’s establishment liberal president Clark Kerr and the Free Speech Movement’s famed radical orator Mario Savio. Photo Steven Marcus, Steven Marcus Free Speech Movement Photographs, Bancroft Library, University of California.Īlthough Louis Menand’s recent New Yorker article “The Making of the New Left” (March 22, 2021) offered perceptive observations concerning some aspects of the student movement of the early 1960s, its treatment of the Free Speech Movement – the first mass protest movement to use mass civil disobedience on campus in the 1960s – rendered women student activists virtually invisible. Suzanne Goldberg, wearing FSM armband, speaks on the Berkeley campus, November 9, 1964. ![]()
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